muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whats the advantage of post silicone chips?
Whats the advantage of post silicone chips?
I’ve not gone into the deep on this yet but what I gather the basic advantages are:
Greater efficiency so cooler temps lower power consumption Higher frequency (AI,Playing Crysis) An increase in physical properties like flexibility
Can it play Crysis (better) still getting the upvotes.
There will be no classic meme slander.
Slander?! I gave him one of those upvotes!
Graphene transistors have shown to clock in THz and require less energy than silicone counterparts. And you can build every semiconductor and condensator and whatever by merging two graphene or tubes in different ways. And likely more environmentally/climate friendly than using metals.
It’s by your comment that I’ve now finally realised the C-alternative programming language Carbon was named as a nod to the name and element C
No, i think that’s entirely because the precursors were A and B.
I’m not talking about C itself, I’m talking about the programming language Carbon, aimed at being a compatible alternative 😅
yuki2501@lemmy.world 8 months ago
While silicon is abundant on Earth, monocrystalline silicon is incredibly hard to produce. You need to use either chemical purification methods that use silicon compound gases, or to use a slow process that starts with a crystal seed to slowly grow giant rods of pure silicon under a chamber filled with argon gas, and many things can go wrong.
Semiconductor-grade silicon needs to be 99.999999% pure to guarantee good yields of microchips.
More on this process here:
hackaday.com/…/mining-and-refining-pure-silicon-a…
OTOH, there are more (and cheaper) ways of grafene production:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Graphene_production_techniques
(On a related note, you might be interested in the history of the transistor to know the arduous path that humanity took just to get where we are )
barkingspiders@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Thanks for the links, that’s really interesting!